International Trotskyist Tendencies
1928 to the present
CBCI — Bolshevik Current for the Fourth International (BCFI).
CRFI — Center for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, associated with the Partido Obrero/Argentina and co-thinkers. They used to be called the Fourth Internationalist Tendency.
CLI — International Leninist Current, Voce Operaia (it) tendency.
COFI —Communist Organization for the Fourth International
CWI or CWI — Committe for a Workers International.
FI — Fourth International, founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky
FI(p) — FI(posadist).
FI-IC — Fourth International — International Committee, one of two splits of the FI,
associated with James P. Cannon, Pierre Lambert
FI-IS — Fourth International — International Secretariat, one ofr two splits of the FI,
associated with M. Pablo, E. Mandel & Pierre Frank
FI (La Vérité) — formerly Fourth International (International of Center for
Reconstruction) associated with Pierre Lambert
FI (USFI) — United Secretariat of the Fourth International
IBT — International Bolschevik Tendency.
ICFI based in Britain— part of ICFI led by Healy until his death.
ICFI based in USA—part of ICFI led by North.
ICL(FI) — International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), the Spartacists
ICL — International Communist League , international supporters of the SWP [us]
ICOT —International Center for Ortodox Trotskyism, in Spanish CITO,
ICU — Internationalist Communist Union, Lutte Ouvriere international
ILO — International Left Opposition, 1928, predecessor of the FI
IMT/CMI — International Marxist Tendency/Corriente Marxista Internacional (IMT/CMI)
iSt — International Spartacist Tendency, now the ICL(FI)
IST — International Socialism Tendency, SWP/Britain and others.
Associated with Tony Cliff. Click HERE for a subject index of writers and documents from the IST.
ITC — Intnernational Trotksyist Committee. International tendency lead by the RWL[us].
ITO — International Trotskyist Opposition, Grisolia tendency [it] and the Trotskyist League [us]
IWC — International Workers Committee, now defunct, formally associated with Workers Voice group [us]
IWL(FI) — International Workers’ League (Fourth International), in Spanish LIT,
Moreno founded organisation
LFI — League for the Fourth International
Internationalist Group tendency [Split from ICL(FI)]
LMRCI — Liason Committee of Militants for the Reconstruction of Commmunist International
LRCI — League for the Revolutionary Communist International.
LTT — Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency.
MT — Marxist Tendency, unofficial name, tendency associated
with Ted Grant and Alan Woods
TF — Trotskyst Fraction - Fourth International, split of LIT, PTS/Argentina and others. [web site: http://www.ft-ci.org/]
WI(RFI) — Workers’ International, Slaughter-Nagy tendency
WIU (FI) — Workers’ International Unity (Fourth International), in Spanish UIT,
Zamora-Ramos 1994 split form LIT.
The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line’s List of
Trotskyist Parties and Organizations of the World
Sorted according to their international affiliation/links are to their home pages
Bolshevik Current for the Fourth International (BCFI)
- Bolshevik Party for the Fourth International (Partido Bolchevique por la Cuarta Internacional, PBCI), Argentina
Committee for a Workers International (CWI)
Communist Organization for the Fourth International (COFI)
Coordination Committee for the Construction of the International Workers Party (KoorKom)
other page broader organization including the LIT(CI)
International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)
International Center of Orthodox Trotskyism (Centro Internacional del Trotskismo Ortodoxo - IV Internacional, CITO)
- Socialist Revolution Party (Partido de la Revolución Socialista, PRS), mirror page Argentina
- Socialist Worker Initiative Committee (Comité Iniciativa Obrera Socialista), Argentina
- Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, PST) periodical El Socialista, mirror page Colombia
- Revolutionary Workers Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) periodical El Trabajador Centroamericano, other page Costa Rica
- Workers Party (Partido de los Trabajadores, PT) periodical El Trabajador Centroamericano, Honduras
- Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Organization (Organización Socialista Revolucionaria de los Trabajadores, OSRT), Mexico
- Revolutionary Workers Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) periodical El Trabajador Centroamericano, Nicaragua
- Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, PST), Paraguay
International Committee of the Fourth International [1] (ICFI[1])
International Committee of the Fourth International [2] (ICFI[2])
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) (ICL(FI))
Fourth International (formally the OCRFI and ICR)
- Algeria—Socialist Workers Organization works inside the larger mass-based Workers Party
- Bangladesh—Democratic Workers Party (works as a tendency within it)
- Belgium—International Socialist Organisation (OSI)
- Benin—Benin Section of the Fourth International
- Bolivia—La Chispa
- Brazil—O Trabalho (Worker)
- Britain—British Section of the Fourth International works inside the British Labour Party
- Burundi—Workers Political Circle
- Chad—Chad Section of the Fourth International
- Chile—Socialist Workers Organization
- China—Chinese supporters of the Fourth International
- Corte d'Ivoire—Corte d'Ivoire Section of the Fourth International
- Croatia—Section of the Fourth International in ex-Yugoslavia
- Dominican Republic—Dominican Supporters of the Fourth International
- Ecuador—Socialist Workers Organization
- France—Internationalist Communist Current (works inside the larger Independent Workers Party)
- Gabon—Gabon supporters of the Fourth International
- Germany—Internationalistische Sozialistische Arbeiterorganisation (now works inside Social Democracy).
- Greece—Greek Section of the Fourth International
- Guadeloupe—Guadeloupe Section of the Fourth International
- Haiti—Socialist Workers Party of Haiti (works inside the larger Parti Oeuvre Socialist)
- Italy—Italian supporters of the Fourth International
- India—Indians supporters of the FI (Kolkata and Mumbai)
- Korea—Korean supporters of the Fourth International
- Martinique—supporters of the Fourth International
- Mexico—Socialist Workers Organization
- Nicaragua—Trotskyist Circle of Nicaragua
- Palestine—Section of the Fourth International
- Peru—Peruvian Section of the Fourth International (Works inside the broader Partido Trabajodores del Campo y Ciudad)
- Portugal—Internationalist Socialist Party
- Romania—Workers Politics
- Russia—Russian Section of the Fourth International
- Rwanda—Workers Political Circle
- Senegal—Socialist Workers Organization
- Serbia—Section of the Fourth International in ex-Yugoslavia
- South Africa/Azania—Azanian Section of the Fourth International works and leads the larger Socialist Party of Azania
- Spain—Internationalist Socialist Workers Party (POSI)
- Sweden—Swedish Supporters of the Fourth International
- Switzerland—Union of Workers Political Circles
- Togo—Togo Section of the Fourth International
- Tunisia—supporters of the Fourth International
- Turkey—Revolutionary Workers League
- Ukraine—Ukraine Section of the Fourth International
- Uruguay—Section of the Fourth International in Uruguay
- United States—Socialist Organizer
- Venezuela—Venezuelan Section of the Fourth International
Fourth International (Formerly USFI)
Sections/supporting organizations:
- Algeria - Socialist Workers Party
- Argentina - Socialist Workers’ Movement
- Australia - Socialist Alternative
- Austria - Sozialistische Alternative (SOAL)
- Belgium - Revolutionary Communist League (in French)
- Belgium - Socialist Workers Party (in Flemish)
- Brazil - Enlace current of PSOL
- Brazil - Insurgencia
- Britain - Socialist Resistance
- Canada - New Socialist Group
- Canada/Quebec - Socialist Left
- Croatia - Radnicka Borba
- Denmark - Red-Green Alliance
- Denmark - Socialist Workers Party
- FI - Inprecor, French language journal
- FI - Inprekorr, German-language monthly magazine
- FI - Punto de Vista Internacional, Spanish-language website
- France - Anticapitalist Left
- France - New Anticapitalist Party
- France - Unitary Left
- Germany - International Socialist Left
- Germany - Revolutionary Socialist League
- Greece - Kokkino
- Greece - Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece
- Ireland - Socialist Democracy
- Italy - Communia
- Italy - Erre, marxist journal in Sinistra Critica
- Italy - Il megafono quotidiano
- Italy - Sinistra Anticapitalista
- Italy - Sinistra Critica
- Italy - Solidarietà Internazionalista
- Japan - Japan Revolutionary Communist League
- Mexico - Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores
- Morocco - Almounadil/a
- Netherlands - Socialist Alternative Politics
- Pakistan - Labour Party Pakistan
- Philippines - Revolutionary Workers Party-Mindanao
- Portugal - Left Bloc
- Portugal - Revolutionary Socialist Political Association (APSR)
- Puerto Rico - within Movimiento al Socialismo
- Russia - Vpered
- Russia- Russian Socialist Movement
- South Africa - Amandla magazine
- Spanish state - Anticapitalist Left
- Spanish State/Catalonia - Revolta Global
- Sri Lanka - Nava Sama Samaja Party
- Sweden - Socialist Party
- Switzerland - Gauche Anticapitaliste
- Switzerland - Mouvement pour le socialisme (La Brèche)
- Switzerland - Solidarités
- Turkey - Sosyalist Demokrasi icin Yeniyol (New Course for Socialist Democracy)
- USA - Socialist Action
- USA - Solidarity
- Venezuela - Marea Socialista
International Marxist Tendency/Corriente Marxista Internacional (IMT/CMI)
- International Center
—In Defense of Marxism, New Youth, TedGrant.org, and Trotsky.net
—In Defense of Marxism, Bolshevik 1917, Hands off Venezuela, TedGrant.org, and Trotsky.net
- Arabic Language—Marxy.com
- Argentina—El Militante
- Australia—Fightback
- Austria—Der Funke
- Belgium—Vonk
and Revolution
- Bolivia—Lucha de Clases
- Brazil—Esquerda Marxista and Livraria Marxista,
- Britain—Socialist Appeal , Marxist Student Federation, and Wellred Books
- Canada—Fightback
and La Riposte
- Catalonia—Revolució
- Denmark—Revolution
- El Salvador—Bloque Popular Juvenil
- France—Révolution
- Germany—Der Funke
- Greece—Epanastasi (Communist Tendency)
- Indonesia—Militan
- Italy—Sinistra classe rivoluzione and Falce Martello
- Mexico—La Izquierda Socialista
- Netherlands—Revolutie
- New Zealand—Socialist Appeal
- Nigeria—Campaign for a Workers’ Alternative
- Norway—Revolusjon (IMT)
- Pakistan—Lal Salam
and Red Workers Front
- Russia—1917.com
- Scotland—Revolution
- South Africa—Revolution
- Spain—Lucha de Clases
- Sweden—Revolution
- Switzerland—Der Funke
- United States—Socialist Revolution Socialist Revolution,
and Marxist Books
- Venezuela—Lucha de Clases
- Yugoslavia—Crvena Kritika
International Socialist Forum (ISF)
International Socialist Tendency (IS)
- Left Turn (Linkswende), Austria
- International Socialist Organisation (ISO), Australia
- International Socialists Canada
- Socialist Solidarity (Socialistický Solidarita), Czech Republic
- International Socialists (Internationale Socialister), Denmark
- Socialist League (Sosialistiliitto, SL), Finland
- Socialism from below (Socialisme par en bas), France
- Left Shift (Linksruck), Germany
- Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP), Great Britain
- Socialist Workers’ Party (Sosialistiko Ergatiko Komma, SEK), Greece
- Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Ireland
- International Socialists (Internationale Socialisten), Netherlands
- Socialist Workers Organization (SWO), New Zealand
- International Socialists (Internasjonale Sosialister), Norway
- Workers’ Democracy (Pracownicza Demokracja), Poland
- International Socialist Organization (Organización Socialista Internacional, OSI), Puerto Rico
- Revolutionary Left (Izquierda Revolucionaria), Spain
- Workers Democracy (Isci Demokrasisi), Turkey
- International Socialist Organization (ISO), USA
International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC)
- Revolutionary Workers League (RWL), USA
International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO)
International Workers’ Committee (IWC)
- International Workers’ Committee (IWC), Canada
- Socialist Workers’ Association of Timor (Aliansi Buruh Sosialis Timor / Associação Trabalhadores Socialista de Timor, ABST), East Timor
- Marxist Workers League (Marxilainen Töväenliitto, MTL), Finland
- Marxist Workers’ Group (MWG), Great Britain
- Ukrainian Workers Committee (Ukrainskii Komitet Rabochii)
- Marxist Workers’ Group (MWG), USA
- Red Criticism (Crveni Kriticar), mirror page Yugoslavia
International Workers League (Fourth International) (Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores (Quarta Internacional), LIT-CI)
- Unified Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, PSTU), Brazil
- Movement for Socialism (Movimiento por el Socialismo, MPS), Chile
- Internationalist Socialist Group (Groupe Socialiste Internationaliste, GSI), France
- International Socialist League (ISL), Great Britain
- Workers’ Party (Partido de los Trabajadores, PT), Paraguay
- Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, PST), Peru
- Breach/Front of the Revolutionary Left (Ruptura/Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária, Ruptura/FER), Portugal
- Internationalist Struggle (Lucha Internacionalista, LI), Spain
- Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores / Partit Revolucionari dels Treballadors, PRT), Spain
- Revolutionary Workers Party - Construction Organization (Devrimci İşçi Partisi - İnşa Örgütü) periodical Enternasyonal Bülten, Turkey
- Socialist Workers’ Party - The Spark (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores - La Chispa, PST), Venezuela
International Workers’ Unity (Fourth International) (Unidad Internacional de los Trabajadores (Quarta Internacional), UIT)
- Socialist Workers’ Movement (Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores, MST), Argentina
- Revolutionary Left - The Commune (Gauche Révolutionnaire - La Commune, GRC), France, one faction in CWI
- Socialist Workers Unity (Unidad Obrera y Socialista, UnioS!), Mexico
- Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario/Partit Obrer Revolucionari, POR), Spain
- Socialism! USA
Internationalist Communist Union (Union Communiste Internationaliste, UCI)
League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI)
League for the Fourth International
Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (Comité de Enlace por la Reconstrución de la IV Internacional, CERCI)
- Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR), Argentina
- Revolutionary Workers’ Party [Masas] (Partido Obrero Revolucionario [Masas], POR[Masas]) periodical, inofficial, Bolivia
Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International (LCMRCI)
Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency (LTT)
Partido Obrero Tendency
Tendency aound the Argentinian Workers Party (Partido Oberero, PO)
- Workers’ Party (Partido Obrero, PO), Argentina
- Trotskyist Opposition of Bolivia (Oposición Trotskista de Bolivia)
- Workers’ Cause Party (Partido da Causa Operýria, PCO), Brazil
- Workers’ Party (Partido de los Trabajadores, PT) periodical Tribuna de los Trabajadores, Uruguay
Socialist Workers Party Tendency
Tendency around the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) of the USA
Periodical Militant
Trotskyist Faction – Fourth International (Fracción Trotskista (Estrategia Internacional), FT(EI))
Others
- Communist League (Liga Comunista), Argentina
- Internationalist Trotskyist Group (Grupo Trotskista Internacionalista, GTI), Argentina, split of PBCI
- Internationalist Workers League (Fourth International) (Liga Obrera Internacionalista (Cuarta Internacional)), Argentina, split of PTS
- Movement to Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo, MAS), Argentina, ex-LIT-CI
- Revolutionary Socialist League (Liga Socialista Revolucionaria, LSR), Argentina, split of MAS
- Socialist Workers’ Union (Unión Socialista de los Trabajadores, UST), Argentina, split of MAS
- Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), Australia, ex-USFI
- Socialist Alternative, Australia, split of ISO
- Workers’ Liberty Australia, linked to British AWL
- Working Group Marxism (Arbeitsgruppe Marxismus, AGM), Austria
- Internationalist Bolshevik League (Liga Bolchevique Internacionalista, LBI), Brazil
- Workers’ Power (Poder Obrero), Colombia
- Committee for the Construction of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Comité pour la Construction du Parti Ouvrier Révolutionnaire), France
- Federation of the Circles "Le Marxisme d’Aujourd’hui" (Fédération des Cercles "Le Marxisme aujourd’hui"), France
- Workers Voice (Voix des Travailleurs, VdT), France, split of LO
- Group of International Socialists (Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen, GIS), mirror page Germany, split of Linksruck
- International Socialists (Internationale Sozialisten), Germany, split of SAG, close to IS
- Mole - Revolutionary Socialists (Maulwurf-Revolutionäre SozialistInnen), Germany
- Socialist Workers Party (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei, SAP), split of Left Shift
- Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL), Great Britain, linked to Australian Workers’ Liberty
- Revolution & Truth Great Britain
- Socialist Democracy Group Great Britain, split of SP
- Communist Internationalist League - Trotskyist (KDE), Greece
- Communist League - Workers Power (Kommounistiki Enosi - Ergatiki Exousia), Greece
- Left Turn (Aristeri Strofi), Greece, split of Socialist Workers Party (SEK), state capitalist
- Iranian Revolutionary Socialists’ League (Ettehadi-ye Sosiyalistha-ye Enqelabi-ye Iran, IRSL)
- Reds Association (Associazione Reds), Italy
- Revolutionary Socialism (Socialismo Rivoluzionario, SR), Italy, ex-LIT-CI
- Fourth International Japan Section Reconstruction Preparation Group (Dayon Dayon Intânashonaru Nihon Shibu Saiken Jumbi Gurûpu, Dayon Intâ Saiken-ha) inofficial, periodical Intânashonaru
- Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Nihon Kakumeiteki Kyōsansugisha Dōmei, JRCL), inofficial
- Japan Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee/Middle Core Faction (Kakumeiteki Kyōsansugisha Dōmei, Zenkoku Iinkai/ Chūkaku-ha)
- Japan Revolutionary Communist League - Revolutionary Marxist Faction (Nihon Kakumeiteki Kyōsansugisha Dōmei - Kakumeiteki Marukusushugi-ha, Kakumaru-ha)
- Kenya Socialist Democratic Alliance (KSDA), close to CWI
- International Socialist Organization (ISO), New Zealand, split from SWO, close to IS
- Workers’ Tribune Group (Grupo Tribuna Obrera), Paraguay
- Socialist Workers’ Movement (Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores, MST) periodical Bandera Roja, Puerto Rico, ex-LIT-CI
- Committee for the Construction of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik-Leninist) (Comitetul pentru Constructia unui Partid Socialist Revolutionar (Bolsevic-Leninist), PSR-BL), Romania
- In Defence of Marxism (En Defensa del Marxismo), Spain, close to ITO and PO-Tendency
- New Clarity (Nuevo Claridad), Spain, ex-CWI
- Revolutionary Left (Izquierda Revolucionaria), Spain, ex-CWI
- Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party (Devrimci Sosyalist Isci Partisi, DSIP) periodical Sosyalist Isci, Turkey, ex-IS
- Socialist Alternative (Sosyalist Alternatif), Turkey, active inside Freedom and Solidarity Party
- Communist Workers Group (CWG), USA/Canada, split of IBT
- Freedom Socialist Party (FSP), USA, Canada, Australia
- Humanists for Revolutionary Socialism
- Labor’s Militant Voice,USA, split from Labour Militant (CWI)
- Workers Democracy Network USA
Ex-Trotskyists
International Leninist Current (ILC)
- Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionär Kommunistische Liga, RKL), Austria
- Workers’ Voice Association (Associazione Voce Operaia), Italy
Others